Re: Dark Shadows blog (articles, comix)

"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In article <96d13$477cc5e8$407e4247$26081@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Anne Greene <ag@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Anim8rFSK wrote:
> > > In article <5qidncpjIv-H6OHanZ2dnUVZ_oLinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> > >  Alric Knebel <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Anne Greene wrote:
> > >>> Alric Knebel wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Hello, Will.  That was great.  I wish that old magazine was still
> > >>>> around, so you could order past issues.  I used to read that mag
when
> > >>>> I was a kid.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I remember getting two issues in my Christmas stocking one year
and
> > >>> spending the holiday break reading them over and over again.
> > >>>
> > >>> Deb
> > >> Do you remember all of those advertisements, for the cool masks and
that
> > >> mechanical hand coming out of the box, and so on.  Man, I'd
daydream
> > >> about owning that junk.
> > >
> > > I got the Famous Monsters make-up kit.  Had to convince Mom to shell
out
> > > the astronomical cost of $5   :-)
> > >
> > I always wanted the sea monkeys.  They had such cute little smiling
> > faces in the ads!
> >
> > Deb
>
> LOL, well, *THOSE* you can actually still get.  :)
>
> --
> Jitterbug phones:
> Fourth one is in hand.  Doesn't work.  Yet.  :(

I also wanted the sea monkeys. I still remember my dismay in freshman bio
when we looked at brine shrimp under a microscope and the teacher told us
these were the sea monkeys sold in magazines and comic books. No pearl
necklaces or smiling faces or any of the other cool stuff from the ads :-(


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